Making Safety and Health Training Materials More Effective

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Description:
  Written materials remain a building block for occupational safety and health training programs, with a recent survey of construction safety professionals and trainers finding that nearly three out of four had used handouts or brochures during the previous month. However, written materials are effective only if the audience understands them, and developing content for the construction industry can be especially challenging because its workforce has a broad range of literacy skills. Public health professionals at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have created a Clear Communication Index (CCI) to guide the design of health education materials for the general public. This study used the CCI to revise an existing handout on heat exposure hazards in construction, assessing whether the new version was more comprehensible than the old version with an audience of 425 construction apprentices and journey-level workers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communication Construction Industry Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Communication Research Construction Workers Hazard Communication Safety Education Training
• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Subseries:
  Key Findings from Research
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20060085
• Citation:
  Key findings from research. Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2020 Jun; :1
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2020
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:86798832fb6dc343f5e6ee68e441c352233337c852a39008a10ec2039a1030e7197dd539d21ac6f53497ba2e59054aafc13de7dbc15f9617fb10ea0ebab14e5c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/212972/cdc_212972_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 48.41 KB ]